Historical foundation to honor preservationists

10:43 PM,
Jul. 9, 2014

Written by

Mike Hasten
mhasten@gannett.com

Lafayette historian Carl Brasseaux and the late Sue Eakin, historian and former publisher of the Bunkie Record, are among eight preservationists to be honored next week by The Foundation for a Historical Louisiana.

The FHL announced Wednesday that it will host its 2014 Preservation Awards banquet at 6:30 p.m. July 17 at the Hilton Capitol Center Hotel, formerly the Heidelberg Hotel, a favorite hangout of Gov. Huey P. Long.

Brasseaux is to receive the Cultural Preservationist Award and Eakin, who died Sept. 17, 2009, will receive a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award. ...